______ the ____________: Redactle

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You solved Redactle Unlimited in 16 guesses with 87.5% accuracy and a time of 00:02:11!

I'll take it!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link

I got it in 41 but I should have tried the answer within 5 - I'd tried all the other parts!

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2022 07:09 (one year ago) link

Last night I dreamt that adjective was too easy so the answer had changed to adjectification (the act of turning nouns into adjectives i guess!). Maybe I need a break from the game!

ledge, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1guesses with an accuracy of 76.47% and a time of 00:06:26. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

deredactlification

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link

the rain on my screen interfered with my layout and my joke, but it’s still sort of intact

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link

well…

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 9 guesses with an accuracy of 77.78% and a time of 00:07:42. let’s just say this one wasn’t very difficult

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 November 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link

Got it in 25, I will say by accident but it was clear right away what the general area was so I was inputting ...relevant stuff.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link

23, took me a while to hit the right area.

ledge, Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 24 guesses with an accuracy of 75% and a time of 00:11:16.

wow, that was unexpected. it seemed like the text said the word was derived from a Latin word meaning ‘birth’ and so, working from the root I was familiar with, I thought maybe ******?, although I had never been aware of that etymology before. and eh… bingo!

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link

Good work, I lucked into it to after 15 though in a less highbrow fashion - had a lot of hits for ------- world, *****al world seemed likely so I just entered the noun form.

ledge, Friday, 18 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 147 guesses with an accuracy of 46.26% and a time of 00:27:47. but I cheated because no, I don’t know any Canadian islands, apart from Newfoundland

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link

I know baffin and some with stupid british royal family names but yeah.

ledge, Saturday, 19 November 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 126 guesses with an accuracy of 92.06% and a time of 00:37:17.

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 20 November 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 25 guesses with an accuracy of 84% and a time of 00:11:51 but I thought of it about ten guesses earlier. always guess what you're thinking!

ledge, Sunday, 20 November 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link

What was Saturday's one (the one with world/universe/space clues littered about)? I never did work it out.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 20 November 2022 23:06 (one year ago) link

nature (that was Friday’s tho, Saturday’s was Banks Island)

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 20 November 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link

ha yes and thankyou. I would never have worked that out wtf.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link

I solved today's Redactle (#229) in 69 guesses with an accuracy of 75.36%.
Europe at #8, European at #11, then I twiddled around with economic and financial stuff until hitting bank at #67 and investment at #69. I did not know that such a body existed - and I used to do IT for investment banks, which shows you how much I was paying attention...

mike t-diva, Monday, 21 November 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 12 guesses with an accuracy of 91.67% and a time of 00:11:08. needed a couple of guesses for the middle word, but all in all an easy one - what with all the € clues

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 November 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 197 guesses with 47.72% accuracy and a time of 00:13:12!

Not so easy for this American: I needed till 150 to get "bank", as I kept thinking that it was a skyscraper or something. Then I got European, but had no clue on the middle word, so I actually ended up brute-forcing my way to figuring out that the acronym is EIB.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 21 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link

I'm european and I cant get it :(

ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link

well I guess technically i'm not anymore, maybe that's why.

ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 08:44 (one year ago) link

what was it then?

ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link

(looks at hidden text) ugh

ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 1 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:13:53!!!!!

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link

awesome. I on the other hand am a doofus. I solved Redactle Unlimited in 28 guesses with an accuracy of 64.29% and a time of 00:18:20.

ledge, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 56 guesses with 71.43% accuracy and a time of 00:02:52!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link

Gah. Another one I should have got 20 guesses sooner than I did (as soon as I guessed the country). I was thrown by having found music/theatre/church.

BC how did you get it in one ffs!

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link

it was an informed guess!

and since you asked for it, the thought process behind it went sth like this:
from the introductory section I got very strong “capital city” vibes right away - a city with a non-English name, as indicated by the italicized box between brackets right behind its English Wikipedia name there. so it could be basically any capital city in the world (but notably, not an Arab one, because an Arab city name would have a definite article prefixed to it, like “al-“, or even a visible “an-“)

btw, the capital city vibes thing was fresh in my mind from the day before, but there it got me fooled when it turned out to be “investment bank” instead - my first guess there had actually been “city” iirc

in this case tho, the short climate section (clear from the visible °* degree symbols) confirmed that this was about a geographical entity.

but then, scrolling further down to look for any kind of clue, inadvertent or not, all I came across, surprisingly and confusingly given my first impression, were a) several instances of capitalised “The” within a sentence (probably indicating names of specific locations in this city) and b) several £ symbols. this very strongly suggested not just an English-speaking country, but one that was part of the UK. hey ho!

returning to the top of the page, ‘Edinburgh’ seemed to fit the length of the box (I never check the letter count), as opposed to ‘London’, ‘Cardiff’ or ‘Belfast’. result!

still, it all hinged on the capital city hunch being right, and I hadn’t bothered to scrutinize it - I could have fallen flat on my face, once again. so yeah, it was an informed guess and I got lucky.

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 07:07 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 71 guesses with an accuracy of 45.07% and a time of 00:32:48.

fluked the second word in 10, fluked the first as well.

ledge, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link

found the second word at 194. onwards and upwards!

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link

You solved Redactle Unlimited in 410 guesses with 29.76% accuracy and a time of 00:28:35!

*sigh* cheated to get the second word.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link

I'm hitting about an 80% fail rate so far and NO idea whatsoever what this one is :(

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link

OK ot it after some minor googling and chance word-flailing, but I have NO idea what this thing is, never heard of it.

186 guesses, 25.81% accuracy. terrible.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 24 November 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link

232: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 37 guesses with 64.86% accuracy and a time of 00:04:44!

A palate cleanser compared to yesterday!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link

Yes much easier :) 28 GUesses 75% this time.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 25 November 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link

49 - book was my first guess but it took me another 40 to get to character.

ledge, Friday, 25 November 2022 08:56 (one year ago) link

I’m back to being a mere mortal - I solved Redactle Unlimited in 77 guesses with an accuracy of 84.42% and a time of 00:15:13.

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link

233: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 125 guesses with 58.4% accuracy and a time of 00:12:27!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Friday, 25 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 20 guesses with an accuracy of 35% and a time of 00:22:14.

wasted most of my guesses assuming the fourth word was chemistry.

ledge, Friday, 25 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 288 guesses with an accuracy of 56.94% and a time of 01:01:39. I did this by cheating.

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 November 2022 23:13 (one year ago) link

234: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 95 guesses with an accuracy of 63.16% and a time of 00:09:41. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Pretty much hit the limits of my chemistry knowledge with this one.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Saturday, 26 November 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link

gave up.

ledge, Sunday, 27 November 2022 09:23 (one year ago) link

cheated and solved Redactle Unlimited in 264 guesses with an accuracy of 58.33% and a time of 01:04:40. in hindsight, this was gettable after all, even for a chemistry dumbass like me. should have tried “carbonate” - I mean, I had “carbon” - and the other element wasn’t exactly obscure either

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link

235: I solved Redactle Unlimited in 187 guesses with an accuracy of 66.84% and a time of 00:25:57. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

I totally went on a whirlwind trip with this one! Once I "narrowed" things down to Asia, I was still puzzled why i got so many hits for Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. I also want getting much from the first paragraph, and I was actually focused on one of the subsections when I accidentally revealed both answers.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Sunday, 27 November 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 37 guesses with an accuracy of 67.57% and a time of 00:10:48.
”Cultural ***” led to China and Asia, the other words followed quickly from that

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 26 guesses with an accuracy of 85.19% and a time of 00:20:06.

asia then religion, lots of head scratching when all the hits for religion were in the second para and the first remained utterly obscure.

ledge, Sunday, 27 November 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link

236: You solved Redactle Unlimited in 69 guesses with 63.77% accuracy and a time of 00:08:14!

I got hits for author, film, and director, which sent me on a very wild goose chase.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 4 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:01:02. Play at https://redactle-unlimited.com/

Best one in a long, long while. Could see it was a man from dates. First sentence has phrase “at the ____ of his”, guessed it was Time. A little way down is italicised ‘A _____ _______ of Time’, which I guessed would be ‘A Brief History of Time’, so knew it was Stephen Hawking.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link

I solved Redactle Unlimited in 3 guesses with an accuracy of 100% and a time of 00:05:36.

[one of the book titles looked like it might be a ____ history of ____ so I guessed that thinking it might be a historian but once the word appeared it was obvious.

ledge, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link


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